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Archived

News Template

Seth, I think the News Template has 1 or 2 redirects on there and it's drivin me crazy that I can't fix em. I think you should or someone who can. -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 01:41, February 5, 2010 (UTC)

Avada Kedavra

I think that the Killing Curse should be moved to Avada Kedavra. It is never mentioned as the Killing Curse in canon. It is Imperius, Cruciatus, and Avada Kedavra. It is noted as such many times in canon. Reply back.--L.V.K.T.V.J.'(Send an owl!) 02:23, February 5, 2010 (UTC)

Umbridge

We have to leave her house as unknown, right? --Hcoknhoj 23:17, February 6, 2010 (UTC)

I put a note in the source code to leave it blank. --Hcoknhoj 23:24, February 6, 2010 (UTC)

Period Placement

I've made that edit dozens of times throughout the past three months. So in British grammar: A sentence such as: Mary told me, "Joe wants you to meet him at the food court." is incorrect? It should be: Mary told me, "Joe wants you to meet him at the food court".

This goes against everything I have ever been taught. --Hcoknhoj 23:43, February 6, 2010 (UTC)

I'll be more particular with those edits then. I was always taught no matter what punctuation goes inside the quotation marks, but what do I know, I'm an engineering student, not an English major. --Hcoknhoj 00:09, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

I had a fanatical English Teacher in 9th grade, some of her lessons must've taken, because bad grammar irritates me. --Hcoknhoj 00:16, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

Magnolia Crescent

I plan on doing an entire rewrite over the next day or two. --Hcoknhoj 00:24, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

I finished. Feel free to tell me criticism you have about it. --Hcoknhoj 10:00, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't really think about referencing articles that small. I guess the other 7 or 8 articles I've rewritten will need references. --Hcoknhoj 05:58, February 8, 2010 (UTC)

They're EVERYWHERE!

Vandals are popping up everywhere. Even if they haven't started vandalizing major articles, they're the beginnings of constant vandals. I know that it's foolish of me to be complaining. No matter how many times they're blocked, they always find a way to get through. Scarletmoon579 04:32, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

How the heck is that possible? They can't just edit as, like, as many unregistered contributors as they want. Can they? -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 02:30, February 8, 2010 (UTC)

Minister for Magic template

I am having trouble with the picture size in Template:Minister for Magic individual infobox. I would appreciate it if you helped this for me. Thanks.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 05:51, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

Dramione

Can you create a userbox for the people (like me) who believe that Draco and Hermione should have been together? (Sort of like the Bella and Voldemort fanatic userbox.) Scarletmoon579 18:18, February 7, 2010 (UTC).

Thank you Scarletmoon579, My name is Wizzzzzard, I tried to create that (Dramione) page, however it was deleated shortly after completion. Would you help me present a case for to creation of pages detailing both possible and actual romantic relationships within the book. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wizzzzzard (talk • contribs).

Seth Cooper is there any way I could write my fanonsense in a small section. A lot of users, do wish to see pages detailing with some interpreted examples, relationship between certain characters. Nothing big, no rediculous couplings (such as Severus Snape and Petunia Dursley) but some are well loved by many fans. Dramione, Drinny, Lurry and Harrmione have their merits and evidence. If you wish you may delete any without said evidence. I propose a test period i write a page or two and see how many visit them within the next week. I am sure we can come to some arrangment. Of course however I realize that you may not set the rules that my page was deleated under, but if you could find some way to tell the one(s) who does it would be much appreciated. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wizzzzzard (talk • contribs).

What's with the sudden influx of users obsessed with this twisted possibility? Just saying, --JKoch(Owl Me!) 15:11, February 21, 2010 (UTC)

OOU Policy

Is this discussion dead or just tabled until we finish the infobox vote? The book and movie articles need considerable work, and I don't want to start editing en masse without a valid policy to follow. --Hcoknhoj 21:03, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

Policy table

Hey Seth, I think the Policy table has a few redirects. Could you unlock it just so I can fix em? Thanks. -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 02:27, February 8, 2010 (UTC)

Fanon

An unregistered contributor keeps making a fanon about someone named "Casey Rosner" (probably their name).I warned them but they didn't listen. Can you ban them? Thanks.--L.V.K.T.V.J.'(Send an owl!) 03:15, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

Something to note

I noticed that today is the day to change the featured article on the main page so I am just letting you know since I confirmed the details. -Adv193 05:03, February 12, 2010 (UTC)

Arthur Weasley

Hey, I posted this on Talk:Arthur Weasley: There is conflicting information in this article about whether or not Arthur was a member during the first war. The opening paragraph says he wasn't, but a section or two later it says he was. Is there a definite answer, and if there isn't we need to remove any reference to him being in the Order the first time as speculation.

Do you think you could help me look into this and get a final answer. Thanks, --Hcoknhoj 12:37, February 12, 2010 (UTC)

Possible vandalism

I just saw user 24.4.169.146 edit User:JordanLaLa's user page. JordanLaLa's contributions don't show his IP number, so it might just be that he forgot to log in, but with all the vandals running around these days, one thinks on the dark side. Just thought you should know. Scarletmoon579 21:52, February 12, 2010 (UTC)

Delete Maybe?

Look at this article. Unidentified baby-headed Death Eater and the discussion. He is not really unidentified, we know he has to be one of the 12. --Hcoknhoj 10:07, February 14, 2010 (UTC)

Unspeakable

Hey Seth :-). I've talked it over with Cavalier One, and we'd like you to be an Unspeakable as long as you accept. Let me know! Cheers, Grunny(Talk) 09:08, February 16, 2010 (UTC)

Awesome. You can start using {{Unvote}} on articles you vote for and can add {{User unspeakable}} to your user page if you want. Also, it is retroactive, so feel free to add the {{Unvote}} on any votes you have currently on the FAN and see our archiving instructions for our new archiving procedure :-). Cheers, Grunny(Talk) 22:40, February 16, 2010 (UTC)

Jayden Matthews

I'm sorry to say Jayden is now leaving for good. He needs an administrator to ban his account to avoid the temptation of returning. -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 15:13, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks dude. By the way, I see we have a new contributor, AVADA KEDAVRA357. This guy could be AVADA KEDAVRA, the user who was blocked infinitely before. So keep your eyes open. -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 00:37, February 22, 2010 (UTC)

Good man. You don't think it's him do you? Was his account creation disabled when he was banned? -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 00:47, February 22, 2010 (UTC)

Killing Curse

We have conflicting information in back to back paragraphs, both portrayed as fact, about the Etymology of "Avada Kedavra." I'm going to copy this to Starstuff as well in case they gets on first. Thanks, --JKoch(Owl Me!) 04:08, February 23, 2010 (UTC)

Philered

Unspeakable

Hey, I just want to let you know I added an Unspeakable category to your user page, as you are officially an Unspeakable now. Thanks.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 21:27, February 23, 2010 (UTC)

Harry Potter

Will you watch user: 89.241.83.155. He is obsessed with Harry Potter being a Pure-blood, he has changed it 4 times and then hit my talk page telling me that I was wrong. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 23:13, February 24, 2010 (UTC)

Battle of the Astronomy Tower

In the second Paragraph of the Battle section, does the picture on the left overlap the text for you? --JKoch(Owl Me!) 02:30, February 25, 2010 (UTC)

It is dark mark over hogwarts for me, but is there anything that can be done? --JKoch(Owl Me!) 02:43, February 25, 2010 (UTC)

Minister for magic Infobox

Well, I made myself look like an arse for lack of a better and more colorful word. A heads up would have been great, just saying. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 16:43, February 27, 2010 (UTC)

Btw, I am all for the great infobox purge of 2010, but you should inform the regular membership. Many of them have created infoboxes and will likely not take too kindly to their work being deleted. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 16:59, February 27, 2010 (UTC)

Question

Hey, I just saw a blog post from User:Snowflower that had the words, 'Contains Rape' in the summary. Is that allowed on this wiki? Thanks, --JKoch(Owl Me!) 01:47, February 28, 2010 (UTC)

Template

Hey Seth. I was just wondering, should we create a template for 20,000 edits, as Grouchman is almost to his 20,000 edit, and you and others are starting to get close to it?--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 23:06, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

Thank You

And btw, the unregistered user who has a porblem with the Hermione infobox vote is using different but very similar IPs everyday. If we vote on an image that is fairly recent, and it has consensus support, it is valid correct? --JKoch(Owl Me!) 17:59, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

Hermoine Granger's main image

I'm sorry Seth, but this is ridiculous. Closing a vote early is one thing, but a week early is absurd, and unfair to those who are not aware that the vote is taking place. Not that the vote was not absurd to begin with, not to mention a violation of the voting policy. What Lord Voldemort killed the vampire James is doing is called "gaming the system", wherby one uses the official channels and policies of a wiki to lower it's quality, in this case by inserting that low quality out of date image into the infobox. I respectfully ask you to observe the wiki's rules by re-opening the vote and mediating it yourself. 86.158.105.58 23:10, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

Can you catch me up on what happened regarding this today? --JKoch(Owl Me!) 01:28, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, but the fact that the image is from HPB still means it is out of date. The fact that it is from a delted scene makes it non canon. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.158.105.58 (talk • contribs).

Happy Birthday

Happy Belated Birthday Seth!! Or should I say, Grouchy Belated Birthday!! haha just kiddin! hope it was great!! By the way, do you think I'm fit to be an administrator? -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 23:32, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

Tessie

I thought the family guidelines said no "great..." relatives. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 03:48, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

USer boxes

how do i get user boxes like" this user supports the Order of the phoenix"? Happy birthday! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 114.76.42.147 (talk • contribs).

Help me! i vve been on wiki for a while and i still dont know how to make infoboxes and stuff and how do i get user boxes? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Molly Wobbles (talk • contribs).

Archiving talk pages

I made a rough draft of the addition to the policy page. Let me know if it look alright. - Nick O'Demus 14:54, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

Hufflepuff protected

Could you give the Hufflepuff article semiprotected status, at least for a while? Over the last several months, multiple anonymous IP's have been adding that Hufflepuffs "are particularly good finders" to the list of traits (It's a line from the fan-made "A Very Potter Musical"). - Nick O'Demus 04:50, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

Done. It's been a constant target, so I went ahead and permanently semiprotected it for now. Grunny(Talk) 09:33, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

Transcripts

Hey Seth Cooper. I made pages for transcripts from the Harry Potter movies. I thought it was a good idea to have them, so we know what they are saying in all the Harry Potter movies. I hope you like the idea.--Station7 17:31, March 6, 2010 (UTC)

Vote

I got rid of image 3, as it has less votes than the other picture. Just wanted to let you know.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 21:58, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

Vandal

Hey Seth. There is this vandal that keeps putting things about a Very Potter Musical. Can you warn him about it? Thanks.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 23:36, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

Long-term Project

Hey, if you come across an article that needs a lot of work, could you throw it my way? I could use a long term project like you are doing to Griselda Marchbanks. Thanks, --JKoch(Owl Me!) 02:35, March 9, 2010 (UTC)

Wiki picture

There hasn't been a picture change for the past week+. It would be good if you changed it. Thanks.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 23:21, March 9, 2010 (UTC)

Magorian

Is the main page picture fanart? --JKoch(Owl Me!) 02:08, March 13, 2010 (UTC)

Gellert Grindelwald

Hello Seth Cooper. I added some info on Grindeld and Dumbledores relationship as per JK Rowlings recent confirmation. However I don't think I did the ref tag thing properly and my spelling/grammar is not all that. If you could fix it for me that would be good. Thank you.

Bad quality image

Ted Lupin

Hey, his page has been changed to Hufflepuff individual and the source is a link to a questionable youtube video. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 01:09, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

Skin

Apparently the skin of the wiki that Jayden Matthews created has been lost with the new wikia makeover. I have been looking around other wikia's, and the same thing happened to them, so I guess we are on our own right now.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 17:20, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

Peeves

Where did you get the thing with Peeves coming with the castle? It keeps getting changed back. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 03:34, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

New article: "The 8th Horcrux"

The way this is written makes me suspect it was done by one of the band members as self-promotion. It doesn't really seem notable enough. - Nick O'Demus 10:28, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

This user keeps adding fanon to pages and I have already warned them previously. If they keep doing this I am going to have to ask you to block them.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 18:30, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

Block them now Seth. They have been warned before and now they created a page of fanon.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 18:59, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

Unidentified Death Eater II

Can you look at this page and its talk page. We think that it is redundant, since all the Death Eaters who fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries were named. Talk:Unidentified Death Eater (II) --JKoch(Owl Me!) 19:14, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

Editor

Are you having issues with the editor? Every time I open the editor it changes to a different format then I switch to source and the screen is filled with numbers and other characters. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 01:41, March 23, 2010 (UTC)

Susan Bones

Hey, I think we have an edit war going on on Susan Bones. The top picture has been changed back and forth from one to the other repeatedly over the past few days. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 00:46, March 25, 2010 (UTC)

Article suggestion

Hi Seth. Do you think that the "up!" command used to summon a broomstick into the the hand deserves an own article. And if, what is it? A spell? It doesn´t require a wand at all. Personally, I think that the brooms have enchantments to act like horses, but this is merely speculation.--Rodolphus 08:37, March 27, 2010 (UTC)

Where should it be covered, then? In the Behind the scenes section?--Rodolphus 12:55, March 27, 2010 (UTC)

Hey Seth, I am under the impression that the annonymus user you blocked is RussoDogwood, considering his personal outlash against you on RussoDogwood's talk page and RussoDogwood getting on the same day as this person, so I think you should block him, too, as they are probably the same person. Thanks.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 03:01, March 28, 2010 (UTC)

Sirius Black

Can you look at the Duellist section of Sirius Black. User:Hoziwei edited it, and I have my doubts about neutral POV. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 05:26, March 28, 2010 (UTC)

Greyback DE?

Robert Pattinson

I have noticed on the Robert Pattinson page history that there is alot of vandalism on it. Can you semi-protect it, because he is still an actor that appeared in the Harry Potter series, even if he has gone against it. Thanks.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 21:25, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Professor Sprout

Hi Seth. I´ve just seen on your work page that you have found out where Sprout´s office is. I could be wrong, but wasn´t it also mentioned by unidentified students in the Order game who wondered where Sprout is? It´s one of the random quotes I think. Should we create a seperate article or should we redirect Herbology professor´s office to greenhouses?--Rodolphus 14:39, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

house points

Yo, just wondering about house points and cause ur a prefect i think u can answer my questions.When does the new term for HP start and if it's already started sorry! And do i have to sign up like when i got a limit of edits or can i sign up anytime?